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...there who were sooooooooooo sure that Jaime Renato sang back up for the Beach Boys, I've got some pretty shattering news for you. Jaime Renato is a friend of Tom Aronson, and although extremely flattered that she would be thought of as a back-up for Brian Wilson and Co., still insists on singing with a band in the small night clubs of Albany, New York...
After taking and clearly enjoying a trip in the back-up Air Force One provided by President Ford, Carter decided it would be cheaper, at least for the transition period, to stick with chartered jets for long trips. His desire to send his daughter Amy to a public school in Washington was well received by the largely black population of the capital. But his insistence on carrying his own luggage caused the Washington Star's society columnist, Betty Beale, to carp last week that "if the American people had wanted their President to be a bellhop, they could have...
...Director Martin Scorsese had 400 reels of film, Capitol Records had the makings for a new live album, and 5,000 fans of first-class countrified rock had had one final look at The Band. After 16 years, some of them spent as Bob Dylan's back-up group, Guitarist Robbie Robertson, Bassist Rick Danko, Organist Garth Hudson. Drummer Levon Helm and Pianist Richard Manuel had come to San Francisco's Winterland for their final live performance together...
...might seems that Columbia's chances for a similar shocker today would be hampered by the loss of starting quarterback Kevin Burns, who is sidelined with a hyperextended elbow, but sophomore back-up Cal Moffie from Newton should prove a decided plus from Harvard's standpoint. Cal's father, Harold Moffie, starred at halfback for the Crimson from 1947-50 and so young Moffie has a vested interest in bamboozling the Bruins...
...last six minutes, Eli back-up quarterback John Jones passed for one score and ran for another. The points pushed Harvard's undefeated season into never-never land. As time ran out, Crimson back-up signal-caller Brian Buckley added six more points on a pass to Rober Jenkins...